attracter

Definitions

English slip-decorated ware. Although made in England mainly for local consumption, many attractive examples were shipped to Virginia during the 17th century

WordNet 3.6

nattractera characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts"flowers are an attractor for bees"

nattracter(physics) a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system

nattracteran entertainer who attracts large audiences"he was the biggest drawing card they had"

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ATTRACTED MORE ATTENTION THAN THE COLLECTION

Attraction of spheres

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Interesting fact:
In 1785, the city of Paris removed bones from cemeteries to ease the overflow of dead people. They took these bones and stacked them in tunnels now known as the Catacombs. You can visit these tunnel attractions and work your way along long corridors, which are stacked with skulls and bones

nAttracterOne who, or that which, attracts.

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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Interesting fact:
To make butter more attractive in colour, carrot juice was used by people in the Middle Ages

nattracterOne who or that which attracts. Also spelled attractor.

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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

Interesting fact:
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas

Attracteran agent of attraction

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Quotations

Oscar Wilde

“Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.”

Marcus T. Cicero

“The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.”

Anthony Burgess

“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.”

Jean-Luc Godard

“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”

Oscar Wilde

“All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.”

Epictetus

“Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?”

Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

L. attrahĕre, attractus—ad, to, trahĕre, to draw.

Usage

In literature:

In spite of the desolation that pervades polar regions, the resources are considerable and have attracted much commercial activity.

"Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania" by Jewett Castello Gilson

Social life was so attractive to him.

"A Little Girl of Long Ago" by Amanda Millie Douglas

She was not the least shy or averse to attracting attention.

"The History of Sir Richard Calmady" by Lucas Malet

Floyd wonders again how it is that Cecil is blind to all this attraction.

"Floyd Grandon's Honor" by Amanda Minnie Douglas

The vibration, however, so far from causing the extinction of the original attraction, is in part carried on by that attraction.

"Fragments of science, V. 1-2" by John Tyndall

There are at Bell many seedlings of both these types of great attractiveness and promise.

"Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting" by Various

It is attractive both on account of the freshness of its melodies and the popular character of its music and text.

"The Standard Operaglass" by Charles Annesley

What attraction and counter-attraction they must exert upon each other!

"Aether and Gravitation" by William George Hooper

While the centre of attraction in Agra is the Taj Mahal, the fort, palace, and Moti Musjid (Pearl Mosque) are of equal interest.

"Travels in the Far East" by Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

A workmanlike dress can be very attractive.

"The Canadian Girl at Work" by Marjory MacMurchy

Yet some of the brighter ones particularly attract and excite our attention.

"Astronomy for Amateurs" by Camille Flammarion

There was developing in her that perfection of womanhood, the full mold of form, which could not help but attract any man.

"Jennie Gerhardt" by Theodore Dreiser

Attractive libraries and reading rooms make less attractive the seductions of other places.

"The Library and Society" by Various

His attractive personality won him the hand of Constance, the daughter of the French king, Philip I., and he collected a large army.

The bookstore's revenue helps to support a homey library whose fireplace, coffee pot, and jigsaw puzzles in progress attract not only quick-stop borrowers but also people looking for a sociable place to spend part of their day.

Bounce houses are just one of the attractions at the New York Power Authority's (NYPA) Summer Spectacular, to be held Saturday, July 21, from 10 am to 4 pm at the Hawkins Point Visitors Center and Boat Launch in Massena.

In science:

If the variable y belongs to the domain of attraction of a stable distribution of exponent α > 1, then y has a ﬁnite expectation E ; just as in the case α = 2, we can choose bn = n1−1/αE .

Harmonic mean, random polynomials and stochastic matrices

It is attracted from the left only by the root x1 of p, and from the right by all the other roots, so we see Lemma 3.1.

Harmonic mean, random polynomials and stochastic matrices

Displaced (attractive) random ensembles lead to rotational spectra with strongly enhanced BE 2 transitions for a certain class of model spaces.

Spectroscopy with random and displaced random ensembles

Later, it will be shown that the attractive nature of the interaction leads to BE 2 coherence so far detected in a randomized IBM context but not in shell model (SM) simulations.

Spectroscopy with random and displaced random ensembles

Therefore, for attractive forces, the coherent part is a matrix whose elements are constants c = −|c|; leading to a displaced TBRE (DTBRE).

Spectroscopy with random and displaced random ensembles

In a two-body context with good J , attractive forces do not have systematically negative matrix elements, but their signs must have a very general origin, because all realistic interactions are spectacularly similar , and the extremely rare sign discrepancies only affect the smallest absolute values.

Until our recent work with Gert Heckman we had not realized that the constructions also work for ball quotients and that they form an attractive class to treat before embarking on the more involved case of type IV domain quotients.

Compactifications defined by arrangements I: the ball quotient case

If ζ = 0, then the number of the monomers which are attracted or repelled from the well is on average the same, so that the heteropolymer is statistically symmetric.

Localization of a random heteropolymer onto a surface

On the contrary, if ζ 6= 0, there is an excess of the monomers, which are repelled from (ζ > 0) or attracted to (ζ < 0) the well.

Localization of a random heteropolymer onto a surface

The attractive interaction with the surface will be modelled by the potential Vint(z) = uδ(z − z 0 ), where z 0 is small but nonzero (see below).

Localization of a random heteropolymer onto a surface

The second sum in (4) gives an additional attractive interaction, if the monomers belonging to different polymers contact the surface simultaneously.

Localization of a random heteropolymer onto a surface

Identifying D as 2/2m, Eq.(6) coincides exactly with the eigenenergy condition for the localization of a quantum mechanical particle in an attractive Delta-potential placed at the distance z0 from the wall.